pupillan.

a1400 tr. Lanfranc Sci. Cirurgie (Ashm.) (1894) 249 (MED) Þe place þat is clepid pupilla, þat is, þe poynt of þe iȝe.

c1475 ( Surg. Treat. in MS Wellcome 564 f. 24^v (MED) Þis tunicle, vuea..colouriþ þe yȝe, and also sche is þorlid in þe myddil, whos hool is callid of us pupilla, þat is, þe appil of þe yȝe.

1578 J. Banister Hist. Man viii. f. 103 Notwithstandyng that the same Pupilla appeareth blacke, yet nether it, nor any thyng vnder it..is blacke at all, but most perfect bright and shynyng.

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια viii. vii. 560 If one eye be shut the Pupilla or Apple of the other will bee dilated, inlarged and distended as a bladder that is blowne vp.

1670 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 5 1027 They contract much their pupilla or sight-hole of the Eye.

1718 J. Chamberlayne tr. B. Nieuwentyt Relig. Philosopher I. xii. 238 The number of them [sc. rays] is much fewer than if they were immediately received in a greater Opening of the Pupilla without this Hole.

1755 S. O'Halloran Crit. Anal. New Operation for Cataract 32 If the Pupilla is naturally small, it will be hard to conceive, how it can give Issue to a Body, whose Diameter..exceeds that of the Pupilla.

1798 J. Lawrence Philos. & Pract. Treat. Horses II. 481 Glaucoma..is a suffusion, or cloud upon the pupilla, commonly called the sight of the eye, at first partially, in the end totally.

1860 Lancet 1 Dec. 533/1 Equable pressure from confined and compressed fluid would..tend to stretch the retina and choroid, and thus prevent the cupping of the optic pupilla.

2005 Jrnl. Clinical Imaging 29 430/2 The pupilla was inferiorly dislocated with coloboma of the iris.